Word Meanings - DEHISCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To gape; to open by dehiscence.

DEHISCENCE
A gaping or bursting open along a definite line of attachment or suture, without tearing, as in the opening of pods, or the bursting of capsules at maturity so as to emit seeds, etc.; also, the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries
INDEHISCENCE
The property or state of being indehiscent.